I normally leave my opinions about comic book movies for after my main article, but I was so happy with how The Dark Knight Rises turned out that I had to make it my main article. As always, it is not much in the way of a movie review, but rather how the story played out compared to the comic.

I’ll let you all know now that this article is very SPOILER heavy and that is why you can’t read it unless you click over.

See you there.

In the meantime, I thought I would regale you all with my usual click-over contributions.

DC Comic Review of the Week

Supergirl #11

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I felt that Michael Green and Mike Johnson, co-writers, did a pretty good job with this issue. The first page is a wonderful look into how an alien might look at life on our planet. Yet, on the very next page, we learn just how alienating our world can feel to outsiders.

There is a strong motif in this issue about the way foreigners come into America only to face alienation and segregation. If you don’t think so, look at the city you live in. Go down some of the roads you don’t normally go down and see if there aren’t certain areas of your city that are predominantly made up of one culture or another.

Supergirl #11

And it is not just the way we treat other cultures. There is another theme in this issue, a theme of separation. When Kara walks in on Tommy, he overreacts to her seeing him in a towel. When Kara goes to swipe a couple of slices of pizza from a waitress, the waitress yells at her and doesn’t care about whether she has hurt someone’s feelings. Both instances are cases of a stranger invading our personal space. Most of you read these sentences and found no issue with the way Tommy or the pizza girl behaved, but that is because we grew up in a society of separationists. There are other societies that share their personal space and their food without agitation.

Mahmud Asrar draws a darn good comic. Though sometimes his anatomy seemed blocky, I felt that he has a great overall storytelling capability. There were only a few instances where I felt a need to see more emotion and in a medium of stunted expressions that’s saying something. I also really like the homage to Terminator 2. I don’t know if that was the writers’ idea or Asrar’s, but it was pretty great. For those of you not in the know, I’m talking about the part where the cop turns into a liquefied metal monster.!!!Spoilers Ended!!!